Platform for design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of small wind turbines
Autor: | Roohollah Fadaeinedjad, Ebrahim Mohammadi, Hamid Reza Naji |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Emulation
Wind power ComputingMethodologies_SIMULATIONANDMODELING Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Computer science 020209 energy 020208 electrical & electronic engineering Process (computing) ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Aerodynamics Turbine Automotive engineering Software Wind profile power law 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering business MATLAB computer computer.programming_language |
Zdroj: | IET Renewable Power Generation. 13:1576-1586 |
ISSN: | 1752-1424 1752-1416 |
Popis: | Wind turbines are complicated systems with different aerodynamic and electromechanical aspects. An integrated platform which includes design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of wind energy conversion systems is very helpful to design, develop, and examine the performance of different wind turbine sub-systems. The previous studies exclude such a platform and this study tries to fill this gap. In this study, the blades of a 5.5 kW fixed-speed stall-regulated wind turbine are initially designed then employed in simulation and emulation. The same as the simulation setup, the utilised emulator uses AeroDyn and FAST software tools to model the aerodynamic and mechanical aspects of the turbine in a laboratory environment. The emulator is capable of reproducing the static and dynamic behaviour of the turbine in a laboratory similar to the real turbines. For simulation, the electrical parts are implemented in MATLAB/Simulink, whereas the real electrical parts are used for the emulator. The performance of the turbine with the designed blades is investigated in simulation and emulation considering a simple hub-height and turbulent wind profile, generated by TurbSim software tool based on the IEC standards. Moreover, the start-up process of the wind turbine is evaluated using the wind turbine emulator and the results are discussed. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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